February 2009: easyb
Fresh from the Devoxx http://www.devoxx.com conference in Belgium, John Smart gave a talk on Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in Java with easyb http://easyb.org, a new and very hip behavior driven development framework for Java.
This talk went through the basic principles of Behavior Driven Development, and look at how it builds on and differs from "traditional" Test-Driven Development. It then moved on to look at easyb, a very cool DSL-based behavior driven development framework for Java that uses Groovy to let you pretty much write tests that document themselves.
The talk was very practical. We looked at how to write basic easyb test stories, how to use fixtures in easyb and of course how to integrate easyb tests into your build process. There were also some live demos just to prove that it really is as easy as it looks! No knowledge of TDD, BDD or Groovy is required!
When
Wednesday, February 18: 5:00 for 5:15 - 6:30pm
Where
This meeting is hosted by:
Equinox
Level 5
Equinox House
111 The Terrace (or 222 Lambton Quay through Amazon)
Wellington
Speaker
John Smart is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting http://www.wakaleo.com, a company that provides consulting, training and mentoring services in Enterprise Java and Agile Development.
John is well known in the Java community for his many published articles, and as the author of Java Power Tools. John helps organisations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development process